All Building articles in 22 March 2019
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Features
Development update: residential
Changes to the planning system are designed to accelerate housebuilding by bringing new entrants into the market
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Comment
How to be good
Forget about market dynamics outside our control – here’s a plan for making sure what we can affect is done right from the start, and it’s all about good behaviours
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News
Government drags in major suppliers to 'remind' them to pay on time
But Labour MP Debbie Abrahams says government action was not enough
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Comment
Getting rooftop development right
If the challenges can be overcome, then developing above London’s rooftops has the potential to help ease the capital’s housing crisis
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Comment
How IPI turned collaboration from a buzzword into successful project delivery
Dudley Advance II was built to house a new centre for advanced building technologies; it made perfect sense for this building to use IPI
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Features
Sketch of the week: Lyon Close apartment scheme, Hove
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Stuart Bertie, a director in Broadway Malyan’s Weybridge studio
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Die hard
Why Interserve’s shareholders voted to bury the company is something of a mystery, but at least the coffee was good
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Features
Projects: London Screen Academy, Islington, London
Turning a former radio factory into a sixth-form film and television school proved a structural challenge for the project team
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Comment
Scope of delay-related losses
Philip Duffield on an important ruling allowing recovery of delay losses in addition to liquidated damages
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Features
From the archive: 2008 - Interserve boss bullish
Embattled Interserve once had some serious bragging rights – but perhaps more caution would have come in handy
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Comment
Time at Large: Time for a rethink
The orthodox view on how employer delay affects its entitlement to damages has been shown to be quite wrong
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Features
Online poll: Is Interserve's administration symptomatic of the sector?
This week’s poll: Is Interserve’s fall symptomatic of a broken contracting model?
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Features
Image of the week: Ups and downs
Last week saw the opening of Heatherwick Studio’s Vessel, the $200m centrepiece to New York’s $25bn Hudson Yards scheme
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Comment
Clients drive change – and the government is the biggest of them all
Our industry is collaborating more, but what’s really needed is for clients to drive change in the supply chain, writes Turner Townsend’s Bill McElroy
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Features
Can contractors cope with payment practice reforms?
Main contractors are under pressure to reform their payment practices, but will speeding up payments push more of them to the brink?
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Comment
Is Brexit inadvertently taking the industry closer to Latham’s vision?
Brexit’s unusual visibility is forcing a different approach to inflationary risk management, writes Mace Cost Consultancy’s Steven Mason
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News
Plan to transform Concorde airfield into new community cleared for take-off
The Bristol scheme has been designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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News
Housing supply likely to be 'devastated' if government switches off Help To Buy
SME housebuilder warns of consequences if no transition arrangements put in place
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Comment
Interserve administration: do main contractors need rescuing from themselves?
Interserve continues for now, while Andrew Davies takes the helm at Kier
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News
In pictures: Carmody Groarke's Windermere museum set to open its doors
The museum, which displays boats used on England’s largest lake, will open to the public this weekend